How does confidentiality issues influence nursing practice,consider culture,race,ethnicity

vanilla bean · Jan 17, 2015

I was hoping I'd have a chance to do someone's homework this weekend! Not really. What are your thoughts on this topic? What has your research revealed? Hint: posting for others to do your work on allnurses does not count as research.

klone, MSN, RN · Jan 17, 2015

You're joking, right? You want us to write your paper for you? No thanks.

Are people for real? What exactly is the thought process one goes through when they create a username and post for the very first time with homework questions? And not even paraphrased homework questions, but actually VERBATIM from their assignment?

Editorial Team / Admin · Jan 17, 2015

While we at AN are happy to help/clarify when a student needs assistance with homework, we will not flat out do the work for you. Show us what you've found so far, where you need further clarification, and we can assist from there. If you are stuck on where to start, have you looked at your textbook?

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Jan 17, 2015

Welcome to allnurses! The largest online nursing community!

We are unlike any other community! Our goal is to help you become the best nurse you can be! We do that by requiring ALL students to post what their research has revealed to them first...then we will guide you towards the right answer....we do not do the work for you.

Tell us what you think.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2015

:: looking at calendar :: Oh, yep ... first few weeks of the semester.

Learning how to learn is not, often, something students actually learn in school. Fortunately, they have us.

Welcome to AN! We are here to help. However: We do not do your homework for you. You are in nursing school to learn how to be a nurse; asking someone for the answers like this is not learning. If you tell us, "I have this and this nursing diagnoses because my patient has these things going on and I found thus and such on my examination, but I'm confused about...." then we'll really work hard to help you understand. Or if you said, "My nursing text says A, B, and C, but my lab text says D, E, and F, so which one is it?" we could help you see the reasons for that.

But going on an online nursing forum and saying, "Give me three nursing diagnoses, two actual diagnoses and one risk diagnoses and also the nursing care plan and two priority needs" by tonight (!) (or some question like yours) is not what your faculty had in mind when they made this assignment. Your assignment is not all about "giving the right answer." A very large part of every assignment in nursing school is learning how to find it...and your faculty doesn't mean"Go to AN and see if somebody there will tell you." They will not be impressed by your citation of an anonymous online forum.

Nurses have to keep learning their whole professional lives. One of the things you are supposed to learn in nursing school is how to learn, that is, how to find out what you have to know. Reading reference books, looking in the textbooks you're assigned, and so forth...you will be doing that forever. This is how it starts.

If all you do about learning new things is "Go to the keyboard and hit send," then you are limiting your chances of actual learning a valuable skill you will need all your working life. AN is not "Ask Jeeves."

You have doubtless had at least one lecture touching on the importance of confidentiality. There's a really good reason you got that at the beginning of your nursing education, because you're going to need it every day of your working life. You may have had some prerequisites that touched on cultural aspects, family dynamics, and race/ethnicity. If not, they expect you to go find out something about them independently. They want you to put all those together, and they want to see how YOU do it. That is a large (though possibly unstated) goal for the assignment as stated.

So, OP: what have you learned so far that we can help explain?